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Consulting & Investment Advisory
Palisady Asia Pacific is a creative consultancy offering investment and specialist advisory services in the areas of music rights and digital business. With over 20 years experience, Palisady possesses unique insights into the current workings of the digital music industry.
NEWS
EKKO Music Rights was awarded as one of the best music publishers at the KOMCA annual assembly
Huge congrats to EKKO's amazing writers, staffs, partners and KOMCA. Congrats Hyowon Chung for an amazing 12 months.
Emanate already prepared for post COVID Music industry
It has been great to see the Australian owned and produced Emanate music platform making great strides ahead this week. A lot of hard work and visionary thinking has gone into building the music platform of the future. But before we get into the detail on Emanate, it’s important to [...]
Music Royalty Payments becoming a headache?
Suppose I subscribe to Spotify and only stream MY OWN songs for the whole year (painful as that would be). Spotify just earned $120 from myself, and let’s assume will pay out 50% ($60) of that amount back to my distributor. My distributor will take 20% and then pay me [...]
The Album Chart is Dead
Is it time simply to say goodbye and look for a new way to measure an artist’s relevance on a weekly basis? Simply put …. RIP Album Chart. There are many issues with the current calculation. Top end actuaries would struggle to get their head around the process that has [...]
ABOUT
Palisady Asia Pacific is a creative consultancy offering investment and specialist advisory services in the areas of music rights and digital business.
Headed by Gavin Parry, a Senior Digital Music Executive with over 20 years experience in the Asia Pacific region, Palisady offers unique insights into the disrupted, dynamic and agile music industry.
ABOUT GAVIN
Gavin has extensive experience in the music industry having worked with Sony Music for 20 years. He recently held an Executive Vice President Role with Sony Music in Asia Pacific for 9 years leading large teams for both Digital and Business Development across the region in Middle East, Subcontinent, Greater China, Korea and Southeast Asia.
He has strong knowledge of the Asian region and has been involved in music licensing, mergers and acquisitions, business development, digital marketing and finance at a senior level. He created and established the joint venture label with Tencent Music called Liquid State and has closed numerous deals for Sony Music across Asia including the widely publicised acquisition of Korean label KQ Entertainment. He is a regular speaker and panellist at such significant industry events such as Spikes Asia and All That Matters.
He was employed by Ernst & Young early in his career working in business and corporate finance divisions in Australia and Eastern Europe.
Currently a partner in Music Investment and Digital Advisory Palisady Asia Pacific, Gavin has an MBA qualification from the Macquarie Graduate School of Business, holds a Bachelor of Commerce, and is a member of the Australian Chartered Accountants.
Gavin also held the position of Chairman of the Digital Committee for the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for a period of eight years.